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Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th (1980)

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40

Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3

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audience

66

liked it
Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 206,219

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Movie Info

One of the longest-running horror film series began with this gory shocker from director Sean S. Cunningham, who had previously produced Wes Craven's classic Last House on the Left. Entrepreneur Steve Christie (Peter Brouwer) re-opens Camp Crystal Lake after many years during which it has been cursed by murders and bad luck. The young and nubile counselors all begin to die extremely bloody deaths at the hands of an unseen killer during a rainstorm which isolates the camp. A woman is chopped in

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Horror

Ron Kurz

Oct 19, 1999

Paramount Pictures

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All Critics (54) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (22) | DVD (27)

For all its shoddiness, the film manages, just barely, to achieve its ignoble goals -- it delivers what it promises.

September 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (3)
Chicago Reader
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A tame, poorly plotted serving of schlock, less horrific for its ketchup-smeared murders than for the bare-faced fashion in which it tries and fails to rip off Carpenter's Halloween in matters of style and construction.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comments (2)
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The whole film is one of the best arguments for resuming movie censorship to come along in years.

March 7, 2005 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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It depicts what is surely the first recorded instance of the game "Strip Monopoly" and would later inspire Wet Hot American Summer, and we should all be grateful for that.

October 15, 2012 Full Review Source: Quickflix
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Beware of this infamous, sadistic slasher film.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (2)
Common Sense Media

It hasn't aged well; its nonstyle renders it pretty sedate these days.

October 19, 2010 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

Within the dead-teenie realm it achieves a certain classicism

September 6, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

Has there ever been a more unimaginative exercise in big-screen terror?

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | Comment (1)

What makes the movie work is that the slasher genre hadn't been set in stone yet, and some choices that director Sean S. Cunningham makes in the film that work against type.

March 5, 2009 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comments (3)
7M Pictures

a campfire boogeyman story designed to do little more than build tension and deliver a few well-timed shocks, which it does with precision and even a bit of artistry

February 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comments (2)
Q Network Film Desk

Timed to coincide with the release of its 2009 remake, Friday the 13th was re-released on standard DVD and got its Blu-ray debut.

February 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

How do you sum up a movie that's really quite awful yet helped define a filmmaking era?

February 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Whether you want to credit or blame Friday the 13th for its role in influencing modern cineplex cinema is a matter of taste. [Blu-ray]

February 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews
Groucho Reviews

Audience Reviews for Friday the 13th

The killer surprised me a little bit. Expected someone else rather than...(see for yourself ).
August 7, 2010
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I'm not quite sure how it is possible to applaud Friday the 13th beyond the undeniable "guilty pleasure" level. Shot, spliced, and copyrighted in 1978 before it's 1980 wide release, the film was part of a flood of rushed, low-budget Halloween clones; it's extremely trashy; it lowered SAT scores when its targeted teen audience made it a successful sleeper hit; and it gave birth to nine sequels, two of which were titled either "The Final Chapter" or "The Final Friday." But there's something irresistibly fun about it I cannot quite put my finger on. Prior to this directorial zenith, Sean S. Cunningham had assisted horror aficionado Wes Craven with his own directorial debut, The Last House on the Left. I have yet to see that film, let alone anything from Craven, but seeing that it's a cult hit as well, I'm not at all surprised by the cult appeal riddled in the crevices of Friday the 13th. As far as substance, we're talking about one of the most abominable horror movies ever completed. As far as entertainment, the film is simply one of the best.
September 9, 2011
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    1. Alice: The boy...
    2. Sgt. Tierney: What boy?
    3. Alice: The little boy, Jason! The one who pulled me underneath the water!
    4. Sgt. Tierney: Man... we didn´t find any boy.
    5. Alice: Then he is still there...
    – Submitted by André A (11 months ago)
    1. Dorf: What you been smoking, boy?
    2. Jack: Smoke? Don't smoke cause cancer?
    3. Jack: You know what I mean! What, you just get off a spaceship or something? Come on, Coloumbian gold, man. Hash, the grass, the weed, dig it?
    – Submitted by Bria M (11 months ago)
    1. Crazy Ralph: You're going to Camp Blood, ain't ya?
    2. Truck Driver: Goddammit, Ralph, get outta here! Go on, get! Leave people alone!
    3. Crazy Ralph: You'll never come back again.
    4. Truck Driver: Oh, shut up, Ralph.
    5. Crazy Ralph: It's got a death curse!
    – Submitted by Rocky F (14 months ago)
    1. Mrs. Voorhees: Jason was my son, and today is his birthday.
    – Submitted by Danny M (16 months ago)
    1. Mrs. Voorhees: Look what you did to him!
    – Submitted by Noah G (20 months ago)
    1. Mrs. Voorhees: Kill her, Mommy! Kill her!
    – Submitted by Noah G (20 months ago)

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